Foreign News: As Others See Us

Relations between the Western allies are at one of their low postwar
points. What unity there is was born of irresolution rather than
resolution, of recognition of common danger rather than agreement on
common action.

In Britain, the very failure of U.S. plans for "united action" brought a
sense of relief. The Times of London was notably pleased, and seemed to
have made a discovery for itself, to wit, that the Americans are not
wicked warmongers, after all.

"One immensely important factor which has been all too often ignored in
recent years seems at...